Sunday, January 29, 2012

.......I've got some new stamps! Woohoo. Well actually, that's nothing new. I get new stamps most weeks...... but these particular new stamps have prompted me to try something different.

Kinda cleaner, more stylized. I like it. I also went for an out and out Clean and Simple one too- not my style at all! I've been itching to try ripping lots of coordinating papers as well, it's worked out OK I think. I'm entering these into the Happy Daze Try something new challenge.

Friday, January 27, 2012

I'm having an erm sort of afternoon. Today started off in a promising manner- Mr M has a couple of days off work (twas his birthday yesterday), and as we WENT OUT yesterday, we decided to STAY IN today. The requisite chores were swiftly dispatched, we settled down to be down right decadent- which in this house means watching an over 12 rated DVD on our own. We went for the new X Men, which was very good, then Burke and Hare which was funny.

Soooooo. Why am I in what can only be described as a meh mood?

The other 3 (husband, child one and Miss Little Legs) are all off to Tae Kwon Do in an hour or so. Love 'em to bits, but I can't wait for them to go today, and I feel guilty for it.

Ah well, shall I show you something I made instead? No point in answering, I'm showing you anyway......

This is my DT card for the new Stamp Man challenge, which is embellish it. I went for one BIG embellishment.......

I'm going to enter this into the Try it on Tuesday challenge of In the Mail- as this is a Valentine's Card that will hopefully be in the mail to it's recipient.......

Right, I'm going to give myself a good talking to and snap out of it! Wish me luck.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Now I have way too many stamps. I know a lot of crafters say this, but I really do have too many. Some of you will have seen my fabulouso stamp storage that my fabulouso husband built for me (check it out here if you haven't), well it's not quite full....yet....but I can sort of see a time when it will be. I've certainly got at least 2 drawers that need expanding.

One of those drawers is the Stampotique one- I have a wish list I'm determined to fulfill so I'll need the space!

I was making backgrounds with paint and stencils today- using a newish brick effect stencil, which is now my new favourite.

I was playing around today making a little pocket calendar for the Stampotique designer's blog challenge. As an added bonus the base card is recycled from a mobile phone box I've been saving for ages without inspiration!

Inside.

The back.

I added a little elasticated band to keep it shut. Sometimes it all comes together and the idea I have in my head ends up finished on my desk. This is one of those times. Happy :D

The swirl round the edge of one and in the background of the other is a fab Stampin' up one, the little flower is from the same set.

This is for a lovely friend over on the Docrafts forum, cute but still suitable for a man I thought. I am particularly fond of those little mice :)

This next one is from a game of Chinese whispers from a group over on Facebook- one person starts the whisper by making a card, a photo of which is sent to the next person in the list, who makes a card inspired by it and sends a photo of their card to the next person.....and so on. So each person only sees the card immediately before their's. It was really interesting to see which themes, layouts, colours, shapes made it through from start to finish! I'm entering it into the Crafts and Me Anything goes mega challenge.

And finally..... a belated Christmas card image I only came across this morning. I made several of these for the children to give to their fellow Tae Kwon Do club members.

Cute isn't he? They were simple to do and easy to personalise with the right colour hair/ belt of each child.